Re: Current head won't build

From:

Stephen J. Turnbull

Subject:

Re: Current head won't build

Date:

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:28:09 +0900

Randal L. Schwartz writes:
> Except that I had been moving *forward*. If "make clean bootstrap" does
> not do the right thing when moving forward, it's really broken.
"make clean bootstrap" is broken, asking for trouble. "make clean" by
design does not get you to a state suitable for bootstrapping:
## make clean or make mostlyclean
## Delete all files from the current directory that are normally
## created by building the program. Don't delete the files that
## record the configuration. Also preserve files that could be made
## by building, but normally aren't because the distribution comes
## with them.
## Delete `.dvi' files here if they are not part of the distribution.
## make distclean
## Delete all files from the current directory that are created by
## configuring or building the program. If you have unpacked the
## source and built the program without creating any other files,
## `make distclean' should leave only the files that were in the
## distribution.
You want at least "make distclean bootstrap".